Natural News - Bias and Credibility (original) (raw)

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Detailed Report

Bias Rating: FAR RIGHT CONSPIRACY-PSEUSDOSCIENCEFactual Reporting: VERY-LOW Country: USA Press Freedom Rank: MOSTLY FREE Media Type: Website Traffic/Popularity: Medium Traffic
MBFC Credibility Rating: LOW CREDIBILITY

History

Founded in 2005, Natural News is a conspiracy and pseudoscience website that routinely publishes false information. The founder is Mike Adams, who owns several Questionable websites such as News Target and Trump.news.

Google and several others have blocked Natural News over the course of its history.

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Funded by / Ownership

Natural News is owned by Mike Adams, who owns numerous other fake and or controversial websites. The website, like all of Mike Adams’s properties, is funded through online advertising.

Analysis / Bias

In review, Mike Adams is known as the Health Ranger, according to Rationalwiki. However, they point out dozens of cases where his claims are false. Besides promoting pseudoscience, Natural News is an extreme right-wing biased source that frequently promotes Donald Trump’s propaganda such as these: President Trump has a constitutional MANDATE to use the military to protect our southern border – Richard Sacks. This article is sourced from Natural News and Brighteon News, which we have never heard of. In this conspiracy story, there is zero evidence, and hence why it is a conspiracy: CONFIRMED: Barack Obama was running the entire spygate operation that violated federal law to spy on Trump.campaign officials.

In general, politically, all stories favor the right and promote pseudoscience such as chemtrails, the Sandy Hook shooting being a false flag: Sandy Hook: mind-control flicker effect. Lastly, this source denies the consensus on climate change without evidence, as seen here: Climate change cultists are now taking over your local weather forecast.

Failed Fact Checks

Overall, we rate Natural News a Questionable source based on the promotion of quackery-level pseudoscience and conspiracy theories, as well as extreme right-wing bias. This is one of the most discredited sources on the internet. (7/21/2016) Updated (D. Van Zandt 12/12/2022)

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